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Turina

Turina. Attested in Croatia, United States of America, France, Spain, Slovenia, borne by about 803 people in the registers this map holds.

The same name, spelt two ways

One systematic substitution — s for z, w for v, ch for h — where BOTH spellings are independently attested surnames. Kosina and Kozina are one man in two clerks' handwriting. Stronger than sounding alike, weaker than somebody having checked.

Turyna

Only sounds alike

An algorithm's guess. Useful for casting a net, and not evidence.

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What Wikidata says this name is

Copied from Wikidata, not worked out here. It is crowd-sourced and wrong in places, which is why the item is linked below rather than the claim simply repeated.

Q6153912 on Wikidata ↗ — the item every line above came from.

It is also the name of a place

1 place drawn, the largest being TurinaTurina — 47
Where those places are. A dot is a settlement whose name is this surname, sized by its population — not a claim that anybody of the name lives there. Phonetic neighbours are listed below but not drawn: putting a machine's guess on the ground would dress it up as geography.

This is as close to an origin as this map will go. A surname that is also a place name often came from it — and often did not: plenty are occupations or patronymics that happen to collide with a place, and plenty of places are named after a family rather than the other way round. It is a fact with a source, which is more than an etymology page offers.

  • Turina Italy pop. 47
  • Turin Italy pop. 847,287 only a phonetic neighbour, not a spelling
  • Turín El Salvador pop. 11,829 only a phonetic neighbour, not a spelling
  • Turin United States of America pop. 343 only a phonetic neighbour, not a spelling
  • Trina Italy pop. 68 only a phonetic neighbour, not a spelling
  • Turin United Kingdom only a phonetic neighbour, not a spelling

Where it is borne, and where a record names it

Attested in 5 countries: Croatia, United States of America, France, Spain, SloveniaSlovenia — 12 peopleSpain — 43 peopleFrance — 79 peopleUnited States of America — 106 peopleCroatia — 563 people
A dot is a country, not a place. It sits at the country's centre because a national register counts a country; nothing here says where in it these people are. Blank is not absence. This draws the 5 countries where the eleven registers and eight archives behind this atlas attest the name. Most of the world has no surname register this project can read, and the ones that do and will not are listed with the reason.

Country by country

Each country below can carry up to three different kinds of evidence, and none of them is the same claim. A register is a head-count — a state counted these people. A record is one document naming the surname on that ground, narrower evidence and often much older. And a volume overlapping these dates is a document from the right place and years — never a document known to name this surname. None of the three ever means the name exists in that country and nowhere else, or that it exists nowhere but here.

Croatia

563 Borne — a state counted them — Names and surnames in the Republic of Croatia, 2011 Population Census (DZS).

Names and surnames in the Republic of Croatia, 2011 Population Census (DZS) answers questions rather than publishing a list. This name was asked about because the atlas already holds it elsewhere — a name absent here may simply never have been asked about, not absent from Croatia.

Whose archive to write to

3 of 5,047 volumes held for Croatia overlap the 1980s — the decades Turina is attested here. None is known to name Turina: a volume overlapping these years is a document from the right place and time, not a confirmed match. Worth an afternoon.

United States of America

106 Borne — a state counted them — Frequently Occurring Surnames from the 2000 Census.

Whose archive to write to

37,919 of 528,875 volumes held for United States of America overlap the 1930s and 1950s — the decades Turina is attested here. Too many to list, and this atlas does not know whether any one of them names Turina. The commonest kinds: Probate, land and notarial, Civil registration and vital records, Immigration and emigration, Censuses and population lists. See everything this atlas holds for United States of America →

France

79 Borne — a state counted them — Fichier des noms de famille 1891–2000 (INSEE, fichier national).

Whose archive to write to

241 of 1,513 volumes held for France overlap the 1870s, 1890s, 1910s, 1920s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and 1980s — the decades Turina is attested here. Too many to list, and this atlas does not know whether any one of them names Turina. The commonest kinds: Civil registration and vital records, Censuses and population lists, Church and parish registers. See everything this atlas holds for France →

Spain

43 Borne — a state counted them — Frecuencia de apellidos, Censos de población (INE).

Whose archive to write to

5,577 of 35,936 volumes held for Spain overlap the 1880s — the decades Turina is attested here. Too many to list, and this atlas does not know whether any one of them names Turina. The commonest kinds: Church and parish registers, Probate, land and notarial, Civil registration and vital records, Immigration and emigration. See everything this atlas holds for Spain →

Slovenia

12 Borne — a state counted them — Family names, Slovenia, 2026 (SURS tables 05X1015S–05X1018S).

Whose archive to write to

This atlas has no birth-year evidence for Turina in Slovenia, so it cannot narrow Slovenia's 1,585 volumes by date — see Slovenia's own page for all of it.

When it was being born, in France

INSEE counts births by surname and decade from the état civil, 1891 to 2000 — the only dated evidence in this dataset. A name that starts at zero and climbs arrived; a name that falls to nothing left, died out, or emigrated, and the decade it stops is the decade to stop searching. It counts births registered in France, so a family that emigrated in 1900 simply stops appearing, which is information rather than a defect.

  • 1891–1900 3
  • 1901–1910 3
  • 1911–1920 4
  • 1921–1930 6
  • 1931–1940 6
  • 1941–1950 10
  • 1951–1960 5
  • 1961–1970 13
  • 1971–1980 16
  • 1981–1990 7
  • 1991–2000 6

Whose archive held that ground, and when

Every surname site can tell you a name is common somewhere. This one also knows which filing system held that ground in which years — and those are the two halves of one question: my people were called this, they were there, so who has the paper, and for which century. A name in Croatia before 1881 may sit in a military series and not a county one; a name in the Netherlands before 1811 has no civil record at all, only a baptism.

This is about the ground, not about your family. A register counting a name in a country says nothing about which village. And these are the pieces of a country this atlas has drawn, which in a large one may be a corner of it — Acadia reaches into Maine and is not a statement about the United States, and Bohemia's ground crosses into Poland. Each region's own page says which ground it covers. Where a country is missing below, nothing covers it yet.

Croatia
  • Central Istria 8 eras Aquileia → Habsburg → Napoleonic → Austria–Hungary → …
  • Southern Istria 9 eras Patriarchate of Aquileia → Republic of Venice → Austria → Napoleonic → …
  • The Kvarner — Senj, Vinodol, Rijeka 8 eras Frankopan counts of Krk and Vinodol → Habsburg → Napoleonic → Austria–Hungary → …
  • Dalmatia 10 eras Hungarian–Croatian crown → Republic of Venice → Austria → French Illyria → …
  • The Imotski frontier 7 eras Ottoman Empire → Republic of Venice → Austria → French Illyria → …
  • Carniola and the Slovene lands 8 eras Inner Austria → Austria → The Illyrian Provinces → Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, then Yugoslavia → …
  • The Military Frontier — Vojna krajina 8 eras Habsburg military frontier, under Graz and Vienna → Habsburg → Croatia-Slavonia, within Hungary → Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes; Yugoslavia → …
United States of America
France
Slovenia
  • Central Istria 8 eras Aquileia → Habsburg → Napoleonic → Austria–Hungary → …
  • Carniola and the Slovene lands 8 eras Inner Austria → Austria → The Illyrian Provinces → Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, then Yugoslavia → …

No record region is drawn yet for Spain — which is a gap in this atlas and not a statement about that country.

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